Original Language Word Study with Strong’s Numbers

A “Strong’s number” is a number assigned to each original language word in the Bible text. A simple click on a Strong’s number displays information from the following Word Study aids that are keyed to Strong’s numbers:

• Strong’s Dictionary of  Bible Words
• Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon
• Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius - A Hebrew and English Lexicon
• Smith's Bible Dictionary.

Bibles with Strong’s numbers and Grammar Details

The following Bibles are a few of the Bibles that can be displayed with Strong’s numbers and Grammatical parsing codes.

• Greek New Testament - Westcott-Hort.  Readings of Nestle27/UBS4 shown as variants.
• Greek New Testament - Textus Receptus.  Base text is Stephens 1550, with readings of Scrivener 1894 shown as variants.
• Greek New Testament - Robinson/Pierpont Byzantine.  Base text is the Byzantine Textform, edited by Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont, 2000 edition.
• Greek Old Testament – Septuagint (LXX) – Strongs Parsed.
• King James Version – Strongs Parsed.
• Noah Webster Bible – Revised Strongs.

Bibles with Strong’s numbers can be displayed in both Commentary windows and in Bible windows.

Commentary Window with Strong’s Numbers

Note: Click the right mouse button on the Blue Verse heading, Matthew 5:3, to select the Bibles used to display verse text in the Commentary window.

Bible Window with Strong’s Numbers

Strong’s Number Display Properties

Strong’s numbers, such as 165, are displayed in blue by default. Parsing and declension codes, such as V_PAP_NPM, are displayed in CAPITAL letters. Greek text appears in lower case letters. BibleSpeak allows complete control over the font and color used for Greek text, Parse Codes, Strong’s Numbers, and Variant markings. Greek text may be displayed in Greek characters or transliterated into Roman characters. You can display the Greek Bible Properties dialog by selecting Bible Window Format from the Bible menu and then selecting Greek Bible Properties.

Displaying and Hiding Strong’s Numbers and Parse Codes

Strong’s numbers and Parse codes may be optionally hidden at display time. From the Bible menu select Bible Window Format and then select an option from the following menu. (The menu can also be displayed by right clicking the mouse in a Bible window.)

Word Study Window

To display Word Study information for any word in a Bible verse, click on its corresponding Strong’s Number. For example, to display Word Study information on the word rendered “world” in Matthew 24:3 click on the blue Strong’s number “165”.  Click on a parse code, such as "V_PAP_NPM" after Strong's number 5723, to display grammar information.

Finding All Occurrences of a Greek Word

It is often useful to look at all occurrences of a particular Greek or Hebrew word found in the Bible and compare how it is used and rendered in various translations. BibleSpeak provides this feature with single mouse click in the Word Study window.

In the example above, click on the  button, at the top of the Word Study window, to display all verses containing the Strong’s number 165.

Select the Bible translation from which you wish to display the verses, for example the Noah Webster Bible – Revised Strongs.

Click OK to display the Bible Search dialog which will list every verse in the Noah Webster Bible containing our Strong’s number 165.

Note: This Bible Search dialog may be displayed at anytime by selecting Search the Bible from the Bible menu.

Changing Bible Translations

To search a different Bible translation, such as Westcott-Hort, select it from the “In:” dropdown list of available Bibles.

Strong’s Number Search.

You can manually search for a Strong’s number by typing it into the “Find:” field, . Greek Strong’s numbers begin with “g-” (ex. g-165) and Hebrew Strong’s numbers begin with “h-”.

Parse Codes Search.

You can search for a specific Grammatical Form by typing the parse code (ex. V_PAI_3P) into the “Find:” field. This will display all occurrences of “V_PAI_3P” regardless of the Greek word involved.

Greek Word Search.

To search for Greek words you need to type in the Roman transliteration of the actual Greek characters. The following table shows which transliterated Roman characters represent each Greek letter.

To search for all occurrences of “aiwnoV” you would type “aiwnoV” into the search field. This will find all occurrences of the Greek word for “world” in Matthew 24:3, but only the Genitive-Singular-Masculine forms spelled exactly as “aiwnoV”. Hint: You may want to first select Greek Bible Properties from the Bible menu and change the transliteration style from “None” to “Standard”. This will automatically transliterate Greek Bible words for you.  

You can find all occurrences of the word “aiwnoV”, in all its grammatical forms, by typing “g-165” into the “Find:” field. This will find not only “aiwnoV”, but also other forms such as “αιωνι”, “αιωνα”, “αιωνων”, etc. Use Strong’s numbers when you want to find all occurrences of a Greek word regardless of its grammatical form.

Combination Searches.

You can search for all Present Active Indicative 3^rd Person Plural forms of "legw" by typing "g-3004 V_PAI_3P" into the search field. Since there may be an additional Strong’s number between the “g-3004” and the parse code “V_PAI_3P”, you should set the search type to “All” search words “Within three” “Words” of each other, for the best results.